app_store_button

google_play_button

DK - Details page - Device banner - 894x1036

Nyd den ubegrænsede adgang til tusindvis af spændende e- og lydbøger - helt gratis

Lyt når som helst, hvor som helst 

Book Riot

News in the world of books and reading, including hot industry releases, adaptations, publishing industry events, and more with Book Riot’s Jeff O’Neal and Rebecca Schinsky.
Book Riot is the largest independent editorial book site in North America and home to a host of media, from podcasts to newsletters to original content, all designed around diverse readers and across all genres.

Book Riot - The Podcast

Jeff and Rebecca look at the Pulitzer-prize winning books of the century so far and rank them. Some surprises at the top.

Discussed in this episode:

Klara and the Sun release date

Latest Pew research on Americans’ reading habits

Spotify launches option to purchase physical books

Tayari Jones, Freida McFadden, and Yiyun Li named to TIME 100

Character.ai

Use code THEBOOKS for 20% off at Cozy Earth.

Go to quince.com/bookriot for free shipping and 365-day returns.

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ranking the Fiction Pultizer Prize Winners of the Century So Far.

Jeff and Rebecca mull over Pew's most recent data about American reading habits, Spotify launches physical book buying, authors on the TIME100 list, listener feedback, and more.

Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. Join The Book Riot Podcast Patreon for bonus content and ad-free listening.

Subscribe to The Book Riot Newsletter for regular updates to get the most out of your reading life.

The Book Riot Podcast is a proud member of the Airwave Podcast Network.

Discussed in this episode:

Klara and the Sun release date

Latest Pew research on Americans’ reading habits

Spotify launches option to purchase physical books

Tayari Jones, Freida McFadden, and Yiyun Li named to TIME 100

Character.ai

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Use code THEBOOKS for 20% off at Cozy Earth.

Go to quince.com/bookriot for free shipping and 365-day returns.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Surprising (Maybe) Data About American Reading Habits

Jeff and Rebecca talk about the books that have the heat this month.

Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. Join The Book Riot Podcast Patreon for bonus content and ad-free listening.

Subscribe to The Book Riot Newsletter for regular updates to get the most out of your reading life.

The Book Riot Podcast is a proud member of the Airwave Podcast Network.

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Use code THEBOOKS for 20% off at Cozy Earth.

Go to quince.com/bookriot for free shipping and 365-day returns.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Hot List: April 2026

Jeff and Rebecca note the closing of MCD, talk about The Correspondent's rise, Paramount gets back into books, scratch their heads over Audible's Story House, recent reading, and more.

Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. Join The Book Riot Podcast Patreon for bonus content and ad-free listening.

Subscribe to The Book Riot Newsletter for regular updates to get the most out of your reading life.

The Book Riot Podcast is a proud member of the Airwave Podcast Network.

Discussed in this episode:

Shout-out to The Millions spring preview

Pour one out for MCD

The Correspondent wins inaugural James Patterson/Bookshop debut novel prize

Indies Choice Book Awards winners

Audible launches Story House listening lounge

Paramount is getting back into the books business

Warner Brothers developing House in the Cerulean Sea animated series

Parable of the Sower adaptation is coming

Use code THEBOOKS for 20% off at Cozy Earth.

Go to quince.com/bookriot for free shipping and 365-day returns.

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

MCD Shutters, Audible's Story House, and More of the Week's Book News.

Vanessa Diaz is back to walk Jeff and Rebecca through the turbulent, wild, and saucy times of one George Gordon, Lord Byron. They don't make them like this anymore.

Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. Join The Book Riot Podcast Patreon for bonus content and ad-free listening.

Subscribe to The Book Riot Newsletter for regular updates to get the most out of your reading life.

The Book Riot Podcast is a proud member of the Airwave Podcast Network.

Use code THEBOOKS for 20% off at Cozy Earth.

Go to quince.com/bookriot for free shipping and 365-day returns.

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You Have Heard of Lord Byron. But You Have No Idea.

Jeff and Rebecca talk about a transitional moment in book sales, National Book Critics Circle Winners, National Black Bookstore Day, recent reading, and much more.

Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. Join The Book Riot Podcast Patreon for bonus content and ad-free listening.

Subscribe to The Book Riot Newsletter for regular updates to get the most out of your reading life.

The Book Riot Podcast is a proud member of the Airwave Podcast Network.

Discussed in this episode:

NBCC winners

April 7 is the first National Black Bookstore Day

PRH profits dropped 4.7% in 2025

Print sales fell 3.1% in first quarter of 2026

First Pynchon, now it turns out we’ve been saying Thoreau wrong

Harlequin to co-produce AI-generated microdramas

A24 picks up London Falling for adaptation

The Corrections series starring Meryl Streep lands at Netflix

Peacock picks up Dungeon Crawler Carl

Use code THEBOOKS for 20% off at Cozy Earth.

Go to quince.com/bookriot for free shipping and 365-day returns.

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Book Sales Are Softening, NBCC Winners, and More Book News.

Jeff and Rebecca really get themselves tied up trying to pick the It Book of April.

Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. Join The Book Riot Podcast Patreon for bonus content and ad-free listening.

Subscribe to The Book Riot Newsletter for regular updates to get the most out of your reading life.

The Book Riot Podcast is a proud member of the Airwave Podcast Network.

Go to quince.com/bookriot for free shipping and 365-day returns.

Use code THEBOOKS for 20% off at Cozy Earth

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The It Books of April 2026

Managing Editor Vanessa Diaz is joined by Associate Editor Erica Ezeifedi to discuss the Lambda Literary Award finalists, the latest A.I. publishing freakout, messy internet discourse, and more.

Moms, Dads, Grads season is coming up! Send your recommendation requests for gifts–or reads for yourself!—to podcast@bookriot.comFollow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. Join The Book Riot Podcast Patreon for bonus content and ad-free listening.

Subscribe to The Book Riot Newsletter for regular updates to get the most out of your reading life.

The Book Riot Podcast is a proud member of the Airwave Podcast Network.

Discussed in this episode:

Don DeLillo’s hockey romance Amazons will return to stores 

Lambda Literary finalists 

Librarian Luanne James Fights Censorship Demands of Rutherford County Library System’s Board 

Lindy West’s How-Not-To Guide to Polyamory

ICYMI Podcast: Why the Internet Is Arguing About Its Favorite Feminist

Bridgerton Season 5 announcement trailer dropped 

AI is Writing Fiction. Publishers are Unprepared

Use code THEBOOKS for 20% off at Cozy Earth.

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Lambda Literary Awards, Messy Internet Discourse, the Latest A.I. Panic, and More

Vanessa Diaz joins Rebecca for a conversation about the new adaptation of Project Hail Mary. They talk about what the filmmakers kept from the book and what they cut, how the science translated from page to screen, and the magic of an interstellar, interspecies bromance.

Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. Join The Book Riot Podcast Patreon for bonus content and ad-free listening.

Subscribe to The Book Riot Newsletter for regular updates to get the most out of your reading life.

The Book Riot Podcast is a proud member of the Airwave Podcast Network.

Use code THEBOOKS for 20% off at Cozy Earth.

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alien Jazz Hands for PROJECT HAIL MARY

Jeff and Rebecca talk about book-adjacent Oscar news, the staggering number of books published in 2025, adaptation news, and more. Then, they are joined by Louise Erdrich to talk about her new short story collection, Python's Kiss.

Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. Join The Book Riot Podcast Patreon for bonus content and ad-free listening.

Subscribe to The Book Riot Newsletter for regular updates to get the most out of your reading life.

The Book Riot Podcast is a proud member of the Airwave Podcast Network.

Discussed in this episode:

 Here are books to read if you loved SINNERS

Jane Fonda to star in adaptation of The Correspondent

Lord of the Flies series coming to Netflix May 4

Judge in YA romantasy plagiarism case: “hot, sexy, dangerous boys…cannot be copyrighted”

Book output topped four million 2025

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Use code THEBOOKS for 20% off at Cozy Earth.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Hot List: April 2026

Lyt når som helst, hvor som helst

Other podcasts you might like ...